Author:
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962, author.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintNew York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2023]
Descriptionxxxi, 705 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Note:The text of Absalom, Absalom! -- Backgrounds and context -- Contemporary reception -- from Witchcraft in Mississippi / Bernard DeVoto -- from Faulkner, extra-special, double-distilled / Clifton Fadiman -- from The poetry of doom / William Troy -- from Absalom, Absalom! / Walter Paschall -- from Faulkner and destruction / Philip Rahv -- from New technique in novel introduced / W[allace] E. Stegner -- from Mr. Faulkner adds a cubit / Paula Snelling -- [from Review of Absalom, Absalom!] / Henry (Nash) Smith -- from Wiliam Faulkner: the novel as form / Conrad Aiken -- The writer and his work -- The big shot ; Evangeline ; Selected letters, 1934-44 ; from Class conferences at the University of Virginia & Washington and Lee University, 1957-58 / Wiliam Faulkner -- Historical contexts -- Decree of the National Convention [of France]... which abolishes the slavery of negroes in the colonies -- Circular letter to slave-holders [in the Mississippi Territory] ; from Address to militia officers / Winthrop Sargent -- from Liberté ou la mort: armée indigène [Haitian declaration of independence] / Louis Boisrond-Tonnerre -- from The journal of Latrobe being the notes and sketches of an architect, naturalist and traveler in the United States from 1796 to 1820 / Benjamin Henry Latrobe -- from Address to Chickasaw Nation / Andrew Jackson -- Delegates' response to Andrew Jackson / Chickasaw Nation -- Treaty of Pontotoc Creek -- The quadroon of Orleans, a tale / Joseph Holt Ingraham -- from The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi / Joseph Glover Baldwin -- from Mississippi black codes / Walter Fleming, ed. -- from A [Civil War] diary from Dixie / Mary Boykin Chesnut -- from Reminiscences of [white resistance to free black labor in postbellum Mississippi] / Carl Schurz -- from Lecture on Haiti / Frederick Douglass -- from The passing of the great race [Nordic degeneration in the South] / Madison Grant -- from The propaganda of history / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Criticism -- Incredulous narration: Absalom, Absalom! / Peter Brooks -- [The "negro" must be at the core of it all] / Thadious M. Davis -- The "joint" of racism: withholding the black in Absalom, Absalom! / James A. Snead -- Subverting history: women, narrative, and patriarchy in Absalom, Absalom! / Susan V. Donaldson -- [The structure is the argument] / Toni Morrison -- "The direction of the howling": nationalism and the color line in Absalom, Absalom! / Barbara Ladd -- "Some trashy myth of reality's escape": romance, history, and film viewing in Absalom, Absalom! / Peter Lurie -- Topographical topics: Faulknerian space / Hortense J. Spillers -- [Absalom, Absalom! as antifascist allegory] / Ted Atkinson -- Faulkner's cryptic closet: forbidden desire, disavowal, and the "dark house" at the heart of Absalom, Absalom! / Erin Pearson -- Faulkner in the histories of film: "where memory is the slave" / Julian Murphet -- Faulkner's Caribbean geographies in Absalom, Absalom! / Valérie Loichot -- Dying of the stranger's disease: yellow fever, narrative space, and the art of exclusion in Absalom, Absalom! / Edward Clough -- Slave capitalism in Faulkner / John T. Matthews -- The unbearable whiteness of Absalom, Absalom! / Julia Stern -- Sonic afterlives: listening to an unreconstructed America / Julie Beth Napolin -- Absalom, Absalom! and the digital humanities: charting characters, events, and language / Johannes Burders -- Wiliam Faulkner: a chronology -- Mapping Sutpen, three ways / Yelizaveta Tischchenko.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 701-705).
Note:"This Norton Critical Edition of Absalom, Absalom! features the authoritative 1986 edition of William Faulkner's experimental Southern Gothic novel published by Random House, Inc. Originally published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! examines Southern and Caribbean plantation history through the life course of Thomas Sutpen and his Black and white family members before, during, and after the American Civil War, as imagined by four narrators in 1909-1910. "Backgrounds and Contexts" highlights contemporary reception of the novel, Faulkner's early versions of the saga, and his own commentary upon it. The "Historical Contexts" section provides readers with essential information on race and class relations in the story's locales (Mississippi, Haiti, Virginia and New Orleans), Chickasaw dispossession, the Civil War home front, as well as on how the plantation past was memorialized. In the "Criticism" section, scholars share analyses which examine questions of narrative method and media, as well as themes of race, gender, sexuality, illness, geography and capitalism in the text. A selected biography and chronology are also included."-- Provided by publisher.
